Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
...night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...years Chicago's hollow-eyed lively Attorney Mary Belle Spencer has been a stock figure in that city's news. During the Hauptmann trial, she circularized the Hunterdon County, N. J. venire rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. During the Century of Progress, she tried to have Fan Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without...
Last week Enrico Fermi had his picture taken holding a hollow globe of paraffin as big as a pumpkin, standing beside a piece of apparatus that looked like stovepipe put together with baling wire (see cut). Said Dr. Fermi: "The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field. Radium, naturally radioactive, is used for the treatment of cancer. The completely new radioactive substances created in the laboratory should give medical men new tools, some of which may prove more efficient than radium...
...physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound...